Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] CodingGuidelines: call the conditional statement "if ()", not "if()"

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 20:36:41 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> David Kastrup <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> - - We try to avoid assignments inside if().
>>> + - We try to avoid assignments inside "if ()" condition.
>>
>> That's not grammatical.
>
> OK,
>
> 	... inside the condition part of an "if ()" statement.
>
> then?

       ... in the condition of an "if" statement

is what I would write.  "if ()" statement is mixing name and shorthand
for the statement.

-- 
David Kastrup